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In a discussion on Current TV about Sheldon Adelson on Wednesday, Moore told host Jennifer Granholm, “Adelson and all those people will be gone, just like the people who voted for Reagan, the older generation that was really behind Reagan.”

“If you were 55 or 60 years old in 1980 when Reagan ran, you’re dead now,” said Moore. “They’re not alive. They left. And when they left, you know, things got better.”

Sensing perhaps a verbal misstep, Moore clarified his comments.

“My dad is 91. I love old people. Don’t get me wrong. But, I’m just saying that the previous generations, which were willing to live under segregation, were willing to live with women making a third less than men, were willing to live with all this stuff. They wanted gays in the closet. Their way is over.”

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Time marches on. The same thing is happening in the older Cuban exile community here in South Florida that supported the GOP after Bay of Pigs. The younger set is rapidly moving to the Dems in Florida.

Oh man, Fox news is going to have a field day with this, I could see this being their top news headline all day long. . . maybe even into tomorrow. . . Or maybe until the Don says he has found the Obama birth certificate or until Rove comes on and says Ohio still hasn't been decided or until Rasmussen has a new poll or until there is one black panther standing in front of some federal building somewhere in the country. . . Yah, we all know what he meant, the American culture was is over, the Reaganites lost, possibly because there really are, less of them.

Gay marriage is now legal and will continue to be so in more and more states, Pot will be legal in another few years and already is so in two states, woman can do whatever they please and minorities in our country are not the minorities any more, but equals.

Love you Michael Moore and I feel your anger. The Republican officials have just achieved a coup for the oligarchs. I saw many angry Republican union workers out in the street protesting. This will not be forgotten.

And you are right, the USA will be a better place when the generation of "I got mine -like almost free college and pensions that are now only a relic of days gone by" are dead. What will Fox News become? I am thinking it will become a religious channel although not based upon the teaching of Christ and all his commie talk such as "Let the man with 2 tunics share with him who has none, and let him who has food do likewise." - more like Jesus quoting Ayn Rand.

The young believe in a word the baby boomers have never muttered -sustainability. They have a completely different view of energy, food and consumerism. They have to -they were born into $3.00 +/ gallon of gas costs and a destroyed economy by 30 years of failed conservative policies. They also are the least prejudice in our history. Fear tactics regarding race and sexuality will not work. Change is coming that is why our rulers are in out the closet overdrive mode cheating, stealing, bribing to keep the playing field tilted in their favor.